Pulsars Reveal Clues to Dark Matter in the Milky Way
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Researchers are using millisecond pulsars as precise cosmic clocks to detect invisible mass concentrations in the Milky Way, which could be massive rogue planets, small stellar objects, or clumps of dark matter. By measuring the timing of pulsar signals, they aim to identify these objects, though their exact nature remains uncertain.
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